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| - I haven't been here in many years, but we had a craving for snails and clams, so automatically thought Chinatown as nothing beats seafood cooked in black bean sauce. Our go-to place in the past has always been Sang's Great Seafood Restaurant, but remembered our last time there it wasn't that great, so came to New Sky since it was just up the street from Sang's.
Since it was late around 11ish on a Thursday night, the place wasn't busy with only three tables occupied. Therefore, we got friendly, fast and efficient service like most of the Chinese restaurants in the area. Perhaps it helped that we spoke Cantonese as we always seem to get somewhat better service if we spoke Cantonese. I guess it helps some of the staff since their English can be very limited at times, but the server we had spoke English very well. He even was going back and forth speaking both Cantonese and English with us, even though we spoke Cantonese to him the whole time, but we were speaking English among ourselves.
Server informed us they're open until 5am on Friday and Saturday night. Perhaps he assumed that both my friend and I were in our 20s. I have long passed my days when I was out until that early in the morning, but it was nice to know should I ever need a seafood fix at that time if I'm still awake, then I can come here.
We ordered the sweet yam leaves which was cooked in a shrimp paste with lots of garlic. It was very tasty and the leaves were quite tender. I'm guessing not many people know about the sweet yam leaves as they'll probably opt for the sweat pea shoots, but try it next time if it's available in the Chinese restaurant you dine in.
The snails and clams we ordered were cooked in a black bean sauce. The first few we had tasted good as it has been a long time since we had them, so the taste of nostalgia returned to us momentarily. That didn't last too long since we found the dishes to be too salty. Thankfully, we ordered a bowl of rice to share to absorb some of the saucy goodness.
We also found the prices a bit higher than what we normally would pay, since usually three dishes would cost under $30, but for it to cost close to $40, we were a little surprised. Perhaps it was market prices for the items we ordered, we don't know as we just ordered without looking at the menu since we knew what we wanted when we arrived and just placed the order with the server.
I guess next time we should look at the menu or ask for pricing to avoid any surprises, but when one needs to satisfy a craving, we simply do not care too much about prices as long as it tastes good.
Perhaps we should learn to read Chinese because there's a special menu listed on the wall only in Chinese characters.
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